The Feds filed suit on Wednesday against the telecom giant’s DirecTV unit accusing it of masterminding a plan among three rivals to keep Los Angeles Dodgers games off LA-area cable stations.

DirecTV Chief Content Officer Daniel York was the ringleader who exchanged information with Cox, Charter and AT&T about its plans not to carry the games, federal prosecutors charge in their 57-page civil complaint.

Armed with the info that DirecTV was not going to carry SportsNet LA, the other LA-area cable TV providers were less likely to ink a deal, it is alleged.

DirecTV and AT&T were separate companies at the time.

“Competition, not collusion, best serves consumers and that is especially true when, as with pay-television providers, consumers have only a handful of choices in the marketplace,” said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Sallet in a statement.

The investors acquired the team in 2012 for an MLB record $2.15 billion and aimed to recoup their investment by selling TV rights to the games to Time Warner Cable for $8.35 billion, around $2 billion more than Fox was paying.

The channel owners hiked subscriber fees for the service to almost $5 per subscriber per month, and also wanted to bundle it with basic tier services to attain maximum revenue.

That led to pay-TV companies taking a stand — presumably each making the decision on its own — and saying no the service.

AT&T’s general counsel, David McAtee, denied the Justice Department’s allegations.

“The reason why no other major TV provider chose to carry this content was that no one wanted to force all of their customers to pay the inflated prices that Time Warner Cable was demanding for a channel devoted solely to LA Dodgers baseball,” McAtee said in a statement.

“We make our carriage decisions independently, legally and only after thorough negotiations with the content owner,” he said. “We look forward to presenting these facts in court.”

The Parents TV Council even weighed in on the topic: “The simple solution to this mess is to allow those video subscribers who want to purchase the Dodgers network the ability to do so. End of story,” PTC President Tim Winter said in a statement.

“But time and again, the greedy cable cabal forces carriage of channels that consumers may not want to watch — or pay for. This case is emblematic of what’s currently wrong with the Pay-TV industry, and we hope that this lawsuit paves the way for more consumer choice,” the PTC statement continued.